Tu in tam / Ici par ici / Here and there
Diane Obomsawin (NFB)
Kanada/Canada, 2006, HD, 9'
Childhood can be a chaotic time, especially if you're bouncing back and forth between two continents. With engaging candour and gentle humour, the director offers up images from her family album. In drawing on the bewildering events of her rootless early years, she fleshes out an uncertain identity and takes control of her life.
Umetnik kolaža / The collagist
Amy Lockhart (Amy Lockhart)
Kanada/Canada, 2009, HD, 2'05''
“This animation began while observing collage artist Marc Bell, as he endeavors to complete his work. I interpreted and translated the beauty of toiling hands, the movement of scissors and a coffee cup spillage. It was created using paper puppets and cut-outs.”
Mound
Allison Schulnik (Allison Schulnik)
ZDA/USA, 2011, HD, 4'23''
Mound is a moving painting, created with traditional clay-mation techniques, over 100 puppets and in-camera effects, giving an uncertain account of what exists somewhere between tragedy and farce.
Stari krokodil / The Old Crocodile
Koji Yamamura (Yamamura Animation Inc.)
Japonska/Japan, 2005, 35mm, 12'57''
A very old crocodile, so old that he had witnessed the building of the pyramids, was suffering from rheumatism, and no longer able to catch his food. In desperation, he decided to eat his great grand son. Although thousands of years of longevity entitled him to much respect, the family decided he would have to be put down. Unable to bear the disrespect of his family, the old crocodile said goodbye to the Nile. One day the old crocodile met an octopus …
Primiti too taa
Ed Ackerman, Colin Morton (Ed Ackerman, Colin Morton)
Kanada/Canada, 1986, 35mm, 3'
A delightful animated poem made with only a typewriter and simple vocal messages. Based on an excerpt from the poem “Ursonate” (Sonata in primitive sounds) by Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948).
Frank film
Frank and Caroline Mouris (Frank and Caroline Mouris)
ZDA/USA, 1973, 35mm, 8'51''
Frank Mouris reads a list of words starting with the letter “f”. This soundtrack is interwoven with the sound of his reading his autobiography. The visual is an animated collage of photos collected from magazines. Frank made the film with Caroline Mouris. The sound track was created by Tony Schwartz.
Poišči me / Look For Me
Laura Heit (Slinky Pictures Production)
Velika Britanija/UK, 2005, 35mm, 3'36''
A woman wakes up one morning and imagines how different her life would be if she were invisible.
Breathdeath
Stan VanDerBeek (Stan VanDerBeek)
ZDA/USA, 1964, 16mm, čb/bw, 14'38''
Dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the surrealism of life. A collage-animation that cuts up photos and newsreel film and reassembles them, producing an image that is a mixture of unexplainable fact with the inexplicable act. A black comedy, a fantasy that mocks at death... a parabolic parable.
Prosti radikali / Free Radicals
Len Lye (Direct Film Company)
Velika Britanija, ZDA/UK, USA, 1957-79, 16mm, čb/bw, 5'
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched “white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches” on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at the International Experimental Film Festival Held in Brussels in 1958 in association with the World's Fair. Stan Brakhage described the film as “an almost unbelievably immense masterpiece”.
Vislice / Le Jeu du Pendu / Hangman
Lamathilde
Kanada/Canada, 2010, HD, 1'39''
Reexamination of a widely known game, in which drawing is far from a trivial activity, a video about suicide and love.
don't worry be happy
Paper rad (Paper rad)
ZDA/USA, 2008, HD, 3'56'
A synthesis, of popular material from television, video games, and advertising, reprogramming these references with an exuberantly neo-primitivist digital aesthetic.
“In the '70s and '80s cartoons and consumer electronics were bigger and trashier than ever and freaked kids out... Now these kids are getting older and are freaking everybody else out by using this same throw-away trash.”